Reply To: Weird crawl spikes but no ranking change

[adrian_knox]

Realistically, realistically, yeah, I’ve seen that too. GSC crawl spikes with basically nothing moving on the actual SERP side usually means Google’s just wandering around the junk drawer again. Old URLs + parameter crap is the annoying part. Half the time it’s some internal link path, half the time it’s a plugin or filter page nobody remembered existed. Rankings staying flat makes it even more fun because you know it’s not actually helping anything. If it’s on smaller sites too, I wouldn’t be shocked. Google’s been pretty happy to spend crawl on nonsense lately.